In St. Petersburg, activist Dmitry Kuzmin was detained during a single picket. He himself told OVD-Info about this.
A young man stood on Nevsky Prospekt near the Kazan Cathedral with a poster “Get out, Babylon” - this is a quote from a song by Boris Grebenshchikov. Kuzmin was taken to OP No. 28. He is charged with violating coronavirus restrictions (Article 8.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of St. Petersburg). A lawyer from OVD-Info, Sergei Podolsky, went to help the detainee.
22:25 Dmitry Kuzmin was released from the police department with a report on violation of coronavirus restrictions (clause 2 of article 8.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of St. Petersburg).
- Dmitry Kuzmin was repeatedly detained during single pickets, for example, in support of Nikita Zhuravel , accused in the case of burning the Koran and beaten by the son of Ramzan Kadyrov, or against the war in Ukraine . Because of his political statements, the young man was expelled from educational institutions twice: first from St. Petersburg State University , and then from the Herzen Pedagogical University .
- According to the federal law on rallies, it is not necessary to notify the authorities about a single picket and agree on its location. Despite this, throughout Russia, picketers are regularly detained under various pretexts. You can read more about the rules for conducting a single picket in our instructions .